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GEORGIANA BOBOLICU
Georgiana has been with Softpedia for almost a year now. She has a college degree in journalism and had never imagined she would end up in the technology realm until she signed up with the Gadgets team. She's happy it happened though, and can't imagine herself doing anything else right now.
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Founded in 1983, Nautica has evolved from a collection of men's outerwear to a leading global lifestyle brand with products ranging from men's, women's and children's apparel and accessories to a complete home collection. Now part of VF Corporation, a leader in branded quality apparel, Nautica has... |
25 March 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Urban Tool is a new age label based in Vienna, focusing on a fresh market based on the blending of fashion, sports and mobile technology. Combining functionality and cool design, the Urban Tool products hold your personal items securely and comfortably in everyday life. Plus, they make you look good while at it, as t... |
25 March 2009
02:06 GMT |
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Jacques Piccard (born in 1922 and gone in 2008, at the age of 86) was a highly accomplished Swiss hydronaut, oceanographer and a pioneer of deep-sea exploration. The entire family was in fact known for its great explorations, Professor Auguste Piccard, Jacques' father, having been the first man to ascend in a ba... |
25 March 2009
02:33 GMT |
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CCTV cameras are already something natural in the UK, but that doesn't mean that it was easy for the Brits to get used to having their every move watched and now, the authorities want to control the population even more. The latest thing they thought of? Spy planes fitted with thermal cameras that would detect h... |
24 March 2009
07:41 GMT |
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In-wheel motors are not something entirely new; however, implementing the technology is not without its share of challenges. On the one hand, it's difficult to coordinate motors that have no mechanical connection to each other. On the other hand, electric motors are designed to spin much faster than the wheels i... |
24 March 2009
07:23 GMT |
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That might sound grand at first, but it's not exactly like that, as RFID tags have been around for quite a while now. However, it's true that this idea is original, although kind of superfluous. But to make things clear, the fourth issue of the Amusement magazine is equipped with an RFID tag connecting it t... |
24 March 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Typically, a patient being monitored by an ECG setup requires ten different electrodes to be attached to predefined anatomical locations on their body. Knowing where to properly place the electrodes requires a lot of training, and the ten different wires coming from each lead can become tangled, or just get in the wa... |
24 March 2009
05:55 GMT |
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IKEA is a privately-held, international home product retailer that sells flat pack furniture, accessories, and bathroom and kitchen items in its retail stores around the world. The company, which pioneered flat-pack design furniture at affordable prices, is now the world's largest furniture manufacturer. Much of... |
24 March 2009
04:25 GMT |
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GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company, is one of the world's most diversified industrial research labs, providing innovative technology for all of GE's businesses. Global Research has been the cornerstone of GE technology for more than 100 years, developing break... |
24 March 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Although getting official over a year ago, missing its original production plan and eventually hitting a wall with respect to production, Tata's long-awaited Nano vehicle is set to take to the streets this July. That's Indian streets, as a European version of the car is promised for 2011 only.This car is ve... |
24 March 2009
03:04 GMT |
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If you haven't heard of the name “Nubeo” before, well, you'll be definitely hearing about it from now on. You'll probably ask why and the answer is that the Swiss watchmaker going by the name of Nubeo has drawn on the image of the Black Mamba and Kobe Bryant’s inspiration to produce i... |
24 March 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Universal Geneve, a Swiss watch company, has been manufacturing complete watches with in-house movements since 1894. Universal has produced many notable and important mechanical watches. After a difficult period in the 1980s and 1990s, Universal released a series of watches and a new micro-rotor caliber that revisits... |
24 March 2009
01:29 GMT |
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If you thought nothing could shock you anymore, you might want to think again. What would you say about a pair of underpants that you can wear for seven days in a row and they don't smell, and you can even set them on fire, or at least try to, as they are resistant to fire, they wick away perspiration and also p... |
23 March 2009
07:42 GMT |
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Whenever people over at MIT, whether students or professors, get involved in some project, it's clear from the start that it's something really cool that many people will benefit from in the (near) future. Thus, a few students have come up with robotic gardeners, hoping to develop a fully autonomous greenho... |
23 March 2009
07:41 GMT |
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Technological advancement has taken every field of activity by storm, otherwise how could we explain the SLIK-STIK, a high-tech walking stick? The SLIK-STIK is a next-generation walking stick. It's adjustable in height, folds up for convenient storage and portability, has a rubberized non-slip hand grip, a forwa... |
23 March 2009
07:35 GMT |
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For those who haven't heard of it before, Pratesi is an Italian luxury brand established in 1948. The company has gone on from strength to strength after being handed down from father to son for tree generations.All this has given the company the possibility to create its own individual style, quite unique in th... |
23 March 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Ingenious rainwater harvesting systems are nothing new to us, but we never miss a chance to share the most creative systems that can not only provide water for you and your family but also for the plants that you love so much. Designing is an art in itself, but few designers add meaning to their art. And Julien Bergi... |
23 March 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you were warned ahead of time that you were going to get sunburnt? Just so you don't have to go through the pain that usually follows sunburn or the awkward jokes of your friends. Well, it seems that dreams do come true after all, as scientists have developed a device that alerts you... |
23 March 2009
01:26 GMT |
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Every day, people are faced with a huge amount of visual and auditory stimuli, since nowadays music and images are consumer goods that are available anywhere and at any time. The great number of video, image and music files on the users' PCs makes it difficult to maintain the overview and to search for certain c... |
23 March 2009
02:28 GMT |
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From the first time you lay your eyes on the Urwerk watches, their unique designs are etched into your memory. Urwerk has taken the rules of watch design and set them aside to take their own path, creating something entirely different from traditional fine watch manufacturers. The latest addition to the brand's ... |
23 March 2009
02:00 GMT |
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A new material that is weight for weight, stronger than steel and stiffer than diamond, and weighs little more than its volume in air, could be the perfect artificial muscle for robots. This truly 21st century muscle could be used to make artificial limbs, "smart" skins, shape-changing structures, ultra-strong robots... |
20 March 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Scientists in the UK plan to release autonomous robotic fish into the sea off northern Spain to help detect for hazardous pollutants in the water.The robots are designed to look like carp and swim like real fish so they won't scare the local meat-based wildlife while patrolling the port of Gijon. Each robo-carp ... |
20 March 2009
07:32 GMT |
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We have already reported about the Concord C1 QuantumGravity timepiece that will be officially launched at this year's edition of Baselworld. However, back when we first mentioned the watch, there weren't too many details available, as only the mechanism of the watch had been made public, but now, only one ... |
20 March 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Fashion has never followed any rules, except for those of extravagance and innovation, so, it was only natural for tech fashion to do the same. Over the recent few years, we have seen quite interesting tech clothing items, some that might actually fall under the category of high fashion, but others are plain peculiar... |
20 March 2009
04:44 GMT |
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Wearable technology is all the rage nowadays, scientists developing more and more advanced apparel to serve all sorts of people's needs. This week, researchers from Philips Electronics plan to describe a jacket they have lined with vibration motors to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer’s emotiona... |
20 March 2009
05:38 GMT |
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The latest in the long line of personal flying machines is the AN-1 AeroQuad, delivered by Spain’s Aeris Naviter. An easy to fly platform, the self stabilizing AN-1 AeroQuad boosts a flying height of 20-30 feet with maximum payload of 200kg and hovers there in thick air for up to five hours. Effective enough to... |
20 March 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Although it was a known fact to many of us, Ideal Standard felt the need to request a research study in order to find out that an increasing number of consumers across the globe are using digital products in their bathroom, from wireless devices and portable music players to computers and even accessing the Internet.... |
20 March 2009
01:59 GMT |
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Technology seems to have conquered everything, all of the human fields of interests, even fashion. This is how the permanently increasing number of interactive apparel can be explained. From glowing shoes and solar-powered bags to “made for iPod” and heated clothing, high-tech garments have ceased to appe... |
20 March 2009
03:27 GMT |
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If you have ever wondered why there are certain timepieces called grand complication watches, then the latest addition to Pierre DeRoche's portfolio, the TNT Retro Royal is the best answer you can get. Although it may seem a bit weird at first glance, you might probably not realize what the deal is with this tim... |
20 March 2009
02:16 GMT |
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Ziamond, the jewelry artists in the world of blingery, have blinged out yet another gadget that is normally not associated with shimmer and shine. The Casio G-Shock watches are more popular than ever thanks to celebrity endorsements, although, for 25 years, Casio G-Shock digital watches have been the ultimate tough t... |
20 March 2009
01:46 GMT |
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